The Simple Dollar Weekly Roundup: Shorts Transition Edition

I’m one of those people that you’ll typically find wearing full-length pants on the hottest day of the year. I’m not much of a fan of shorts for some reason.

Everyone else in my house, however, seems to have already made the leap into shorts. We spent much of the last weekend digging clothes out of storage and finding that an awful lot of last summer’s storage actually still fits all of the children quite well.

When you have multiple days of sunny weather above eighty degrees, it’s time for that transition.

A powerful three step algorithm for happiness I am reminded of this Jim Valvano quote: “To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought. And number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be happiness or joy. But think about it. If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day. That’s a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you’re going to have something special.” (@ zen habits)

Continuing Education May Make You Wiser, But Richer? I think this hinges entirely on your career goals. There are some careers that require a great deal of education to even get in the door. Some of those are highly paid. There are other paths that people get into just because they love it. (@ )

Extending the narrative Key quote: “The truth though, is that doing what you’ve been doing is going to get you what you’ve been getting.” If you’re not happy with where some aspect of your life is right now, you need to start doing something different or you’re just going to retain that unhappiness. (@ seth’s blog)

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